I am curious about whether or not anyone here uses a washboard instead of electrical appliances to wash clothes. Where do you find washboards and organic soaps to use?
I ordered one of these http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=2758 last night because I found another forum on another web-site with a thread about this. They say the Rapid Washer works better than a Washboard.
this is what I've been eyeing: http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemID=1600&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1,2,127,284&KickerID=77&KICKER what forum were you on? always looking for the details kind of places! I wash about half of my clothes by hand & the hard part for me is wringing out the water.
Okay so I confess I am a cheap dude. I just use a 5 gallon pickel bucket, and a plunger which is the same concept as the Rapid wash, I plunge for 5 minutes and myclothes are amazing. I just hang them up super soaked. but you can get wringers at the same web page as the links you posted
I used to do wash with a 5 gal bucket when I lived on the road Washboard Roads in teh forests (and some rural areas) are fantastic for agitation...of your clothees. Alicia Bay Laurel notes in Living on the Earth, that twisting clothes around a sapling or thin post works wonders to wring them.
man its obvious folks typin reples to this thread ahve to much time on there hands.. a fuckin wash board?? i tell ya,, if yer that committed to the cause,, a ringer washer an a bycicle stationary as a moter is much less effort.. a wash board?? ahahhhaahhahaaaahah
Hillbilly You know seriously, I don't I do a load of laundry in the morning as I make the oats, and then I toss them in another bucket of clean water. I wash those guys the next day. It is usually a tuesday -wednesday project those are my days off. ANd well I had to leave the wringer washer in MI when I moved. I miss it dearly.
$pend $pend $pend even goodwill shit costs money, so my pickel buck was free from subway and the plunger was eight bucks, so hey if I have to do some things by hand, it build charerter.
I only use a washboard if I am going to be doin some traveling and camping. I traveled all over the US with a washboard and a 5 gallon pickle bucket. hung it all up. The wring part is the real B*&$$%
